At Percona Live, Dave Stokes talked to Michelle Egan, Senior Manager of Global Events at Percona. An event like Percona Live requires a lot of preparation, coordination, and hard work. Michelle provides some behind-the-scenes information on the creation of this year’s show.
Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
Percona is a Silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find us in the Solutions Showcase to talk databases on Kubernetes — performance at scale, high availability, and what actually breaks when you run MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB in production clusters.
November 9-12, 2026
Percona is a Gold sponsor at PGConf Europe, October 20-23 in Valencia. We contribute to the PostgreSQL community year-round — this is where we catch up with contributors, operators, and the people running PostgreSQL in production.
October 20-23, 2026
